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Former CIA officer John Kiriakou is the man who first confirmed that the CIA was using waterboarding to torture detainees. He's also the only person to ever go to jail over the CIA's torture program. Now he's home on house arrest, and speaking out about his concerns over the future of vital leaks.

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Critics offer plenty of shade to ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' but are sweet on Colin Firth in "Kingsman.'' Rafer Guzman, film critic for Newsday, and Kristen Meinzer, culture producer for The Takeaway, guide us through this week’s releases.

We are still years away from there being meaningful businesses on the moon — if even that soon — but the US government doesn't want to be caught off guard. So officials at the FAA are preparing regulations for

Many new smart TVs use voice recognition to perform simple tasks. In order to do that, though, the TVs have to listen to their environment — and send everything they hear to company servers. That means even your most private conversations, if held in front of the TV, aren't so private after all.